Reflashing BIOS.

[Stephen M]

My drive is plugged in and yes I can boot into a live CD.  For a while it
allowed me to fix the grub bootloader.  Not it says it found a GPT
partition but nothing is on there but the OS.  And when I try to format a
bios_boot partition.  It just throws up more errors.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 6:57 PM, koder <iscreamkid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  If you do not have the hard drive plugged in can you boot to your DVD?
>
> In other words can you boot up, say with Knoppix or equivalent?
>
>
>
>
> On 12/17/2014 12:05 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>
> Plus rufus doesn't see my USB drive when my laptop does.  As for trying to
> open an EFI shell, thats not happening.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>>
>> Nevermind missed that this was post dban.
>>  On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Well that's strange. We're there any recent changes?
>>> On Dec 17, 2014 11:26 AM, "Stephen M" <smelheim85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Yes the BIOS does see them both.  The trouble is that it was booting
>>>> to EFI first now it won't boot to either legacy or EFI.  It just sits there
>>>> after the setup screen.
>>>>  Ya thats what I am trying to work with.  I have a copy of WINs7 but it
>>>> doesn't want to load.  This computer doesn't have a floppy and I don't have
>>>> access to one at the moment.  So I need to find other solutions.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Stephen Partington <
>>>> cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  2 thoughts,
>>>>>
>>>>>  1 - Does the bios see the drive physically?
>>>>>
>>>>>  2 - you will need a boot disk (freeDOS or something similar) to run
>>>>> the executable. or a windows environment.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  HP is notoriously horrible about supporting linux on desktop or
>>>>>> laptop's, so you won't get help there.  They're also quite proprietary acpi
>>>>>> implementations, so likely still (haven't looked in a while) no one bothers
>>>>>> to figure out and support them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My first, and subsequently last, hp laptop I kept the original
>>>>>> windoze disk for this purpose alone, and just loaded new ssd's with linux.
>>>>>> About 6mo ago I sold to a friend, but flashed the bios from windoze luckily
>>>>>> having kept it as the only option I could find to get a current bios on
>>>>>> it.  Install xp long enough on a temp disk to flash it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is why I've usually decried HP to the good folks on this list -
>>>>>> they're just not linux friendly, and hardly worth a darn for anything but
>>>>>> servers anymore.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -mb
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12/17/2014 11:03 AM, Stephen M wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I need help again to be able to reflash my BIOS.  The reason is that
>>>>>> my computer is having trouble reading my drives, CDs, or USBs.  I know this
>>>>>> is the case with the desktop because it works fine in my laptop.  I have
>>>>>> tried to reset the BIOS and thought at first to reinstall GRUB.  Nothing is
>>>>>> working but my HDD does show it does have a OS on it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  i already downloaded the BIOS version from HP but it is an exe
>>>>>> file.  Could anyone help me to see how I can fix this problem?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Stephen Melheim
>>>>>> 602-400-7707
>>>>>> SMelheim85 at gmail.com
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   --
>>>>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
>>>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>>
>>>>> Stephen
>>>>>
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